| [eclipse-dev] Planning Meeting Notes - Oct 8, 2008 |
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Discussion Topic
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Equinox:
- in Equinox, p2 is adding apache http client. Are there others in the
SDK that may want to use the apache http client? Need to discuss the
proper feature this bundle should be included in SDK
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Status
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JDT APT:
- inbox, newsgroups, Bugzilla, conf calls
JDT Core:
- assessing pre-processing story
- keep working on finding constant references in .class files with source attached
- keep working on a cancelable code assist
- started work on code select on types not on classpath
- started work on adding chained jars on classpath (using Class-Path: in MANIFEST.MF)
- backported fixes to 3.4 maintenance
- inbox tracking
- bug fixing
- EclEmma finds 80.4% code coverage
Debug:
- support for configurable problem severity when a build path's execution
environment cannot be bound to a JRE that matches exactly:
- for example, when a build path specifies J2SE-1.4, but the only JRE in the
workspace is J2SE-1.5
- started work on extensible execution environments and associated compiler settings
- bug fixing
Platform UI:
- welcome to Prakash G. R. as a new IBM hire for the Platform UI team!
- preliminary support for Cocoa keybindings already in M3, proper
Cocoa-specific binding support planned for M4 (see bug 248752)
- worked on test suite, improved test coverage slightly:
- coverage report online at: http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/platform-ui/reports/
- multi-instance property view contribution received, see bug 248103
- Ongoing discussion about project nature configuration and the configure
submenu (bugs 231611, 102527)
JDT UI:
- Paste in Package Explorer now starts the Apply Patch wizard when the
clipboard contains a patch
- discussed code assist timeout API with JDT Core
- adjusted code to handle relative paths in .classpath file
- worked on showing Java Annotations in Javadoc hovers and view
- added UI for 'no strictly compatible JRE available' problem severity
- bug fixing
- inbox tracking
Platform Text and JDT Text:
- bug fixing
- inbox tracking
Platform Search:
- debugged and fixed issues with new search test suite in build
- bug fixing
- inbox tracking
Equinox:
- overall:
- In-box maintenance
- p2:
- status http://wiki.eclipse.org/Equinox/p2/Meetings/20081006
- new work flow for p2 UI is being worked. Plan to release this week. Early
feedback is welcome.
- components:
- working on design of the extension registry enhancements
- framework:
- OSGi specification work (RFCs 132 and 138)
- OSGI specification implementation work (RFC 126)
- updating the execution environment profiles and coordinating with PDE and
JDT for providing custom environments
Workspace:
- inbox tracking
- working on the 3.5 M3 issues:
- http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/platform-team/team3.5/plan.php#m3
- bug 169386 Adapt editor functionality to Compare Editor in progress:
- we are not going to implement embedded editors in the compare editor
- we are going to add only java features of the highest priority to the
compare editor
Rel. Eng.:
- test builds for new vm's during JUnit tests
- test builds for new performance machines
- bug fixing
- 3.5 planning